Curry-comb



' (No Model.)

T. GINGRAS.

CURRY 00MB.

No. 337,057. Patented Mar. 2, 1886.

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TIMOTHY GINGRAS, OF BUFFALO, NE\V YORK.

CURRY-COMB.-

LL-ECEFZCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,057, dated March 2, 1886.

Application filed September 30, 1885. Serial No. 178,025. (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY GINGRAS, of

Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of- New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curry-Combs; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has general reference to improvements in curry-combs; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate my said invention more fully, Figure 1 is a plan of my improved ourry-comb. Fig. 2 is aside view of the same, and Fig. 3 an end view thereof. Fig. 4 is a side elevation, and Fig. 5 an end elevation of the double-pointed staples employed,'and Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional elevation of the. same on an enlarged scale.

Like parts are designated by correspond ing letters of reference in all the figures.

The object of my present invention is the production of a cheap and efiicient currycomb. To attain this end I construct my curry-comb substantially of a plate or body-piece, A, of Wood of proper length, width, and thickness, and provide the same with a strap or handle, B, made of leather, said strap being secured to the body-piece A by means of double-pointed staples D, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2. Into the face of the bodypiece I force a series of double-pointed'staples, D, setting them obliquely to the outer edges of said body-piece, and arranging the various rows of staples in a staggering manner. These double-pointed staples D, (shown in detail in Figs. 4,, 5, and 6,) I construct of so-called square wire, being wire drawn with an angular cross section in place of circular, as wire is usually drawn, and to form them into a U shape, taking one of the corners or sharp edges downward, as illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, so as to present to the horse a series of sharpedged hooks or projections, which rake the hair of the horse and clean the same in a very short space of time.

To prevent the wood from splitting I secure to the ends of the body-piece A strips of leather 0, fastening them with double pointed staples D, the same as the handle B, the object of using doublepointed staples in preference to any other means of fastening being that they will hold more securely in the wood than nails or common tacks, and give a better and more substantial appearance to the finished article.

- To insert the staples D into the bed plate or body piece I prefer to puncture the same by means of a suitable die and a press in all the places where a point of the staple is to enter. I then place a plate (of metal) upon the body piece having slotted apertures corresponding with the position of the punctures, and then drop the staples into these apertures, after which a press having a suitable platen forces all the staples into the wood in a single operation.

The edges of the plate or body piece A, I curve or groove, as shown at C, Fig. 3, and the corners of the same I either round off, as illustrated in Fig. 7 at a, or bevel, as shown at a in said figure, the object of the latter arrangement being to have a few of the staples with their sides close to the edge of the bodypiece, such teeth being very serviceable in cleaning and carrying on the limbs of the animal, while the object of the curved or grooved edge or end is to enable the plate being readily held in the hand even if the handle B should get lost from the plate or destroyed in use. By these means I am enabled to produce ourry-combs of an excellent quality at a very low figure.

I am aware that round or curved staples have been used as carrying-points for curryconibs, and such construction I do not claim; but

' What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' 1. A curry-comb provided with a series of double-pointed rectangular staples of angular form in cross-section, the staples being set in the face or body of the comb, and the loops thereof forming wedge-shaped ourrying pro- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as jeetions, substantially as described and set my invention I have hereto set my hand in forth.

the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 2. A curry-comb provided with a series of 5 doublepointed rectangular staples of angular form in cross-section, the staples being inserted in the face or body of the comb, so as Attest: to stand obliquely to the edges thereof, substantial] y as described, and for the purpose set TIMOTHY GINGRAS.

MICHAEL J. STARK,

WILLIAM O. STARK. :o forth. 

